He says "overpass", I say ...

[Victor Steinbok]

  I can't argue with the latter and I won't with the former.

     VS-)

On 7/12/2010 1:01 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> "Low underpass" is not confusing to me as a nearby resident,
> especially when there is a heavy rain.  (And "low clearance" is not
> relevant here.)  Several of the Storrow Drive underpasses are quite
> low compared to the nearby Charles River, perhaps even below its
> level.  (Drains would I suppose require pumps, even if permitted in
> these days of ecological concerns.)  And even apart from that, they
> often collect water in heavy rainstorms, but the "higher underpasses"
> do not.  Only those unfamiliar with Storrow don't know what to
> expect, and where.
>
> Joel

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